San Bartolo Coyotepec
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Town and municipality | |
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  San Bartolo Coyotepec Location in Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 16°57′29″N 96°42′27″W / 16.95806°N 96.70750°W | |
| Country |  Mexico |
| State | Oaxaca |
| Government | |
| • Municipal President | Agustin Antonio Manzano (2008–2010) |
| Area | |
| • Municipality | 45.93 km2 (17.73 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,520 m (4,990 ft) |
| Population (2005)Municipality | |
| • Municipality | 8,015 |
| • Seat | 3,194 |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (US Central)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (Central) |
| Postal code (of seat) | 71256 |
San Bartolo Coyotepec is a town and municipality located in the center of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is in the Centro District of the Valles Centrales region about fifteen km south of the capital of Oaxaca.[2]
The town is best known for its Barro negro pottery - black clay pottery. For hundreds of years pottery has been made here with a gray matte finish, but in the 1950s a technique was devised to give the pieces a shiny black finish without painting. This has made the pottery far more popular and collectable.[3][4] The town is home to the Museo Estatal de Arte Popular de Oaxaca (State Museum of Popular Art of Oaxaca) which was opened here in 2004, with a large portion of its collection consisting of barro negro pottery.[5] There is also a barro negro mural on the recently opened Baseball Academy.[6]
- ^ Artífices del Barro Negro: La magía de San Bartolo Coyotepec. Museo Estatal de Arte Popular Oaxaca. 2014. pp. 11, 26–27.
- ^ "San Bartolo Coyotepec". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on 2007-03-28. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
- ^ "El proceso de elaboración de artesanías de barro negro de Oaxaca" [The process of crafting barro negro crafts of Oaxaca]. Once Noticias (in Spanish). Mexico City. Redacción Once Noticias. 2007-10-08. Retrieved 2010-03-08.
- ^ Boy, Alicia (2000-08-27). "El arte y la magia de Dona Rosa" [The arte and magic of Doña Rosa]. Reforma (in Spanish). Mexico City. p. 2.
- ^ "MUSEO ESTATAL DE ARTE POPULAR "OAXACA"" [State Museum of Popular Art of Oaxaca] (in Spanish). Oaxaca: State of Oaxaca. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
- ^ "Inaugura Harp Helú academia de beisbol en San Bartolo Coyotepec" [Harp Helú inaugurates the academy of baseball in San Bartolo Coyotepec]. e-Consulta Noticias (in Spanish). Mexico. November 12, 2009. Retrieved March 10, 2010.